News about cyber attacks

  • Cyberattackers hit Japan military info

    Information on military aircraft and nuclear power plants may have been stolen in a series of cyberattacks on Japanese defence contractor Mitsubishi Heavy, a report said on Monday.

  • Opinion: Breadth First Hacking

    Recent publicity for online hacking groups such as Anonymous and Lulzsec has seemed to show that nobody is immune from attack on the Internet. Once targeted, it seems that these groups are capable of breaching security systems and retrieving data, including identity information, from the most secure systems.

  • LulzSec, WikiLeaks, Murdoch: hacking's fourth wave

    Wikileaks, hacking incidents like those attributed to LulzSec, and even the UK's News of the World voicemail scandal represent a fourth stage in the evolution of cybercrime, according to Dr Paul Nielsen, director and chief executive officer of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburg.

  • Hacker drone launches cyber attack

    US computer security specialists showed off a homemade drone aircraft capable of launching airborne cyber attacks, hijacking mobile phone calls, or even delivering a dirty bomb.

  • Hacker group's cyber war on US police

    A hacker group says it's "defaced and destroyed" websites at scores of US police agencies in retaliation for the arrest of suspects accused of hacking into the CIA, British crime agency SOCA, and Sony.

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